A few words about Saint Nektarios (part 2)...

He served as a bishop in Cairo for one year. Nectarios was very popular with the people, which gave rise to jealousy among his colleagues. They were able to persuade his superior that Nectarios had ambitions to displace the Patriarch. Nectarios was suspended from his post without explanation. He then returned to Greece in 1891, and spent several years as a preacher (1891–1894). He was then director of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School for the education of priests in Athens for fifteen years.

In 1904, at the request of several nuns, he established Holy Trinity Monastery for them on the island of Aegina. Nectarios ordained two women as deaconesses in 1911. Up to the 1950s, a few Greek Orthodox nuns also became monastic deaconesses. In 1986, Christodoulos, the Metropolitan of Demetrias and later Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece, ordained a woman as deacon in accordance with the "ritual of Saint Nectarios" (the ancient Byzantine text Nectarios had used).

Let's have some vocabulary...

Served (αόριστος) = υπηρέτησε, εργάστηκε (ενεστώτας --> serve)

Bishop = Επίσκοπος

Gave rise to (αόριστος) = πυροδότησε, προκάλεσε (ενεστώτας --> give rise to)

Among (πρόθεση) = μεταξύ πολλών

Colleagues = συνάδελφοι

Persuade = πείθω

Superior = ανώτερος, σε ανώτερη θέση

Ambitions = φιλοδοξίες, στόχοι

Displace = αντικαθιστώ

Suspended from = αποβάλλω κάποιον από κάπου, διώχνω

Post = θέση

Explanation (ουσιαστικό) = εξήγηση  (ρήμα --> explain = εξηγώ)

Returned to = επέστρεψε σε

Preacher = Ιεροκύρηκας, κηρύττει τον Λόγο του Θεού

Education (ουσιαστικό) = εκπαίδευση (ρήμα --> educate = εκπαιδεύω) 

Request = αίτημα

Nuns = μοναχές, καλόγριες

Established (αόριστος) = ίδρυσε (ενεστώτας --> establish)

Ordained (αόριστος) = χειροτονήθηκε (ενεστώτας --> ordain)

Archbishop = Αρχιεπίσκοπος

In accordance with = σύμφωνα με

Ritual = Ακολουθία (της Εκκλησίας)